Collaborative Programmable Music

Overtone is an open source audio environment designed to
explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to
instrument building, live-coding and collaborative
jamming. We combine the
powerful SuperCollider
audio engine,
with Clojure, a state
of-the-art lisp, to create an intoxicating interactive
sonic experience.

VJ Ready

Synchronise your visuals and noise with ease. Overtone
features seamless integration with
both Quil, a
Clojure front-end
to Processing
and ShaderTone,
a Clojure version
of ShaderToy an
OpenGL glsl shader programming environment.

Live Coding

Overtone has been designed and engineered
for live
coding. Our lisp
heritage means that synthesisers, effects, analysers and
musical generators can be programmed and modified live in
real time whilst the sound keeps on blasting out. Check out
Meta-eX for an example of a
band from this future.

Vibrant Community

Overtone is more than just software - it's also a growing
community. Not only do we
have hundreds
of users pushing the boundaries of what's possible, we
also have a growing list
of contributors
hacking with fervour on Overtone's sophisticated internals.